The Minister for Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher announced this Sunday, July 24, forthcoming decrees to force air-conditioned stores to close their doors and reduce illuminated advertising, largely drawing inspiration for advertising from already existing regulations. and poorly applied.
Social partners, shopping centers or local authorities will have to explain to the government this fall how they intend to reduce their energy consumption. Already, a practice has been pointed out at RMC by Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister for Energy Transition.
” Air-conditioning large brands and leaving the doors open means 20% more energy consumption, says the minister. I will take in the next few days a decree which prohibits these practices of opening of the doors when one heats or one air-conditions a store. We will do a lot of pedagogy with Olivia Grégoire, but then we will not refrain from sanctioning “.
The measure already taken in Lyon, Besançon or Paris will therefore be generalized and the fine may go up to 750 euros. Agnès Pannier Runacher insists on the importance for traders to apply this rule collectively. ” If in a street, all the stores are closed, then customers will continue to enter the stores “.
Switching off illuminated advertisements
Another decree must generalize the extinction of illuminated advertisements between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. under penalty of a fine of 1,500 euros except in stations and airports. This already exists in part of the territory. In addition, the law already obliges to turn off illuminated signs and windows at night, but the device is poorly applied.
The Citizens’ Climate Convention was also much more ambitious. She had proposed the prohibition of advertising screens in public space.
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The ministry could not specify on Sunday the content of the next decree, but explains that it will aim to “ harmonize the rules “, without specifying the number of agglomerations today covered by a local regulation of advertising (RLP) nor concretely how the controls and sanctions will be implemented. ” The contours will be specified when the decree comes out, “ the idea is really that it is applicable from now on “added the ministry.
Today, non-compliance with the regulations, which have existed since 2013, is not sanctioned very much. ” The challenge remains to have these texts applied by those who have public responsibility for them: local authorities and the State. “, recently commented the association ANPCEN, which fights against light pollution.